Enjoy yourself as much as you like, if only you keep from sin.
St. John Bosco

Monday, April 13, 2009

Journal 4/13

Happy birthday to me! We celebrated yesterday, Easter Sunday. I got a panini maker! And a coffee mug signed by all the kids. And a very yummy cheesecake, the leftovers of which I ate for breakfast! Rick and I sipped wine and watched installment 3 of Little Dorrit, yesterday evening. It was a really nice Easter/birthday celebration.

Today:

Read Bible History and Devotional stories over breakfast

Did math lessons and spelling lessons from workbooks in prep for CAT with S &B

S read more in The Mysterious Benedict Society

Will has a cold and was out of it for a good bit this a.m. He's spent most of the day read My Antonia and practicing guitar

Josh is reading Walk Two Moons

Hannah did laundry, read through the handbook for UD, cleaned her room and went to work

Josh did some of his Latin homework, some math homework and is right now working on his Merchant of Venice open book test. Boy is that test a killer. He actually enjoyed reading the darn play but the test has stripped any pleasure from it.

S played outside for a bit

W and I went grocery shopping

B and S are watching Popeye cartoons

I did some of the Latin homework for tomorrow

S practiced some piano but not much

S has his piano lesson at 6 and then he and W have music theory at 7:30 so we are going to eat out over near the music school for dinner tonight

10th Grade - Catholic Life Community, A Beka Biology, Saxon Algebra II and Jacobs Geometry, New First Steps in Latin/Lingua Latina, The History of the Church, St. Augustine's Confessions, Augustine Came to Kent, William the Conqueror by Belloc, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, St. Francis of Assisi by Chesterton, The Quiet Light by de Wohl, Dante's Inferno, Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, Lepanto by Chesterton, Hamlet by Shakespeare

A Brief Introduction

My husband, Rick and I have been married for almost 22 years. We are Catholic (well, Rick is Jewish!) and love living the homeschooling lifestyle. The kids have all been diagnosed with LDs when it comes to reading and writing. These turned out to simply mean we bloom a little later than other kids do in these subjects. No big deal. But I am a big fan of vision therapy as it has helped my kids so much!

We've been pretty relaxed these past few years, most relaxed in the youngest years and gradually getting more formal as we enter high school and design our own college prep plans. This year we are starting out more formal for 6th grade. My son has expressed a desire to go to school next year in 7th grade. So to help prepare him for that he wanted to to enroll in Kolbe's homeschool program to get used to taking tests, writing more and keeping a tighter schedule. The 4th grader is following suit, just because they are used to doing much the same thing each day.

My 15 yo wants to go to college and is interested in the fields of economics, business and finance, computers and game design.

I have graduated two children from homeschool already! My oldest daughter, 19, is starting her second year at the University of Dallas, majoring in Politics. My oldest son, 18, plans to study and take CLEP tests using CollegePlus, find a parttime job, and practice and prepare for his winter audition for a music conservatory. He aspires to be a composer and performer.

So we are down to homeschooling three kids this year, 2010-2011 - a 10th grader, a 6th grader and a 3rd/4th grader. This will be our 14th year of homeschooling!